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dullard
Meaning: a person considered slow-witted or foolish
dullard in a sentence
How dullard is used in real sentences:
The arrogant tutor treated every struggling pupil as a dullard.
The critic dismissed the young inventor as a dullard who could not grasp basic principles.
“The exchange worsened when one senior scientist called a younger opponent a dullard and waved away her calculations without reading them.”
— from the passage The Bone That Would Not Settle
Synonyms for dullard
Other words for dullard — dunce, fool and blockhead — carry the same meaning.
- dunce
- fool
- blockhead
Antonyms of dullard
Words that mean the opposite of dullard:
- genius
- prodigy
- intellect
Where it comes from
Formed from dull and the contemptuous suffix -ard.
Memory hook
DULL + -ARD: a dullard is a person seen as mentally dull.